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Half-Lightweight (≤66 kilograms), Men

Date17 September 2000 — 15:00-18:30-20:30-22:00
StatusOlympic
LocationSydney Exhibition Centre, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales (Hall 1 & 2)
Participants35 from 35 countries
FormatTwo single-elimination pools, with winner of each pool advanced to the final. All judoka losing to the finalists in each pool advanced to repêchage pools, with the winners of the repêchage pools earning bronze medals.

France’s Larbi Ben Boudaoud was World Champion in 1999 after winning a silver medal at the 1997 Worlds. He was also European Champion in 1998 and 1999. In the 1999 World final, he defeated Turkey’s Hüseyin Özkan. In Sydney they again met in the final. Ben Boudaoud led early in the match when Özkan threw him for ippon to win the gold medal. Neither judoka was a native of the country they represented in 2000. Ben Boudaoud was born in Algeria, but had moved to France as a youth. Özkan was born in Chechnya in the Soviet Caucausus, but moved to Turkey when he was 20. His judo gold medal was the first Turkish gold medal won in a sport other than weightlifting or wrestling.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Hüseyin ÖzkanTURGold
2Larbi BenboudaoudFRASilver
=3Giorgi VazagashviliGEOBronze
=3Girolamo GiovinazzoITABronze
=5Arash MiresmaeiliIRI
=5Patrick van KalkenNED
=7Han Ji-HwanKOR
=7Yukimasa NakamuraJPN
=9Henrique GuimarãesBRA
=9Ivan BaglayevKAZ
=9Kiyoshi UematsuESP
=9Zhang GuangjunCHN
=13David SomervilleGBR
=13Georgi GeorgievBUL
=13Melvin MéndezPUR
=13Pürevdorjiin NyamlkhagvaMGL
17Jorge QuintanalGUA
ACAlex OttianoUSA
ACAmar MeridjaALG
ACAndrew CollettAUS
ACAnis LounifiTUN
ACGabriel BengtssonSWE
ACIslam MatsiyevRUS
ACJavier WangaARU
ACJean-Claude CamerounCMR
ACJózsef CsákHUN
ACKevin Ngapoula-MbemboCGO
ACLudwing OrtizVEN
ACMansur ZhumayevUZB
ACMartín RíosARG
ACMiguel Ángel MorenoESA
ACPedro CaravanaPOR
ACTarek AyadLBA
ACVictor BivolMDA
ACYordanis ArencibiaCUB

Pool A (17 September 2000)

Round One (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Yukimasa NakamuraJPN
Ippon/Ko-uchi-gari (1:40)
Tarek AyadLBA
Match #2 Victor BivolMDA
Ippon/Kata-garami (4:22)
Mansur ZhumayevUZB

Round Two (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Patrick van KalkenNED
Koka/Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Pürevdorjiin NyamlkhagvaMGL
Match #2 Yukimasa NakamuraJPN
Waza-ari awasete Ippon/Go-Outside-Contest-Area (4:04)
Anis LounifiTUN
Match #3 Islam MatsiyevRUS
Waza-ari awasete Ippon/Ko-uchi-gari (1:00)
Martín RíosARG
Match #4 Ivan BaglayevKAZ
Ippon/Kuchiki-taoshi (1:11)
Jean-Claude CamerounCMR
Match #5 Hüseyin ÖzkanTUR
Waza-ari (5:00)
Arash MiresmaeiliIRI
Match #6 Georgi GeorgievBUL
Yuko/Go-Outside-Contest-Area (5:00)
József CsákHUN
Match #7 Zhang GuangjunCHN
Ippon/Seukui-nage (0:11)
Victor BivolMDA
Match #8 Andrew CollettAUS
Ippon/Uchi-mata (1:16)
Javier WangaARU

Quarter-Finals (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Patrick van KalkenNED
Ippon/Seukui-nage (5:00)
Yukimasa NakamuraJPN
Match #2 Ivan BaglayevKAZ
Ippon/Hansoku-make/Head-Dive (3:29)
Islam MatsiyevRUS
Match #3 Hüseyin ÖzkanTUR
Yuko (2) (5:00)
Georgi GeorgievBUL
Match #4 Zhang GuangjunCHN
Ippon/Sumi-gaeshi (1:06)
Andrew CollettAUS

Semi-Finals (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Patrick van KalkenNED
Ippon/Seukui-nage (0:46)
Ivan BaglayevKAZ
Match #2 Hüseyin ÖzkanTUR
Ippon/Uchi-mata (2:05)
Zhang GuangjunCHN

Final Round (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Hüseyin ÖzkanTUR
Waza-ari (5:00)
Patrick van KalkenNED

Repêchage (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Yukimasa NakamuraJPN
Yuko (5:00)
Pürevdorjiin NyamlkhagvaMGL
Match #2 Arash MiresmaeiliIRI
Ippon/Seoi-nage (1:56)
Georgi GeorgievBUL
Match #3 Yukimasa NakamuraJPN
Ippon/Uchi-mata (4:44)
Ivan BaglayevKAZ
Match #4 Arash MiresmaeiliIRI
Ippon/Kata-garami (2:44)
Zhang GuangjunCHN
Match #5 Yukimasa NakamuraJPN
Ippon/Seukui-nage (0:15)
Arash MiresmaeiliIRI
Match 3/4 Girolamo GiovinazzoITA
Yuko/Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Yukimasa NakamuraJPN

Pool B (17 September 2000)

Round One (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Larbi BenboudaoudFRA
Ippon/Ko-uchi-gari (4:59)
Han Ji-HwanKOR

Round Two (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Larbi BenboudaoudFRA
Ippon/Seukui-nage (0:16)
Jorge QuintanalGUA
Match #2 David SomervilleGBR
Ippon/Juji-gatame (2:12)
Miguel Ángel MorenoESA
Match #3 Kiyoshi UematsuESP
Ippon/Uchi-mata (0:56)
Kevin Ngapoula-MbemboCGO
Match #4 Alex OttianoUSA
Koka/Shido (5:00)
Amar MeridjaALG
Match #5 Giorgi VazagashviliGEO
Ippon/Okuri-eri-jime (2:29)
Yordanis ArencibiaCUB
Match #6 Pedro CaravanaPOR
Yuko/Seoi-nage (5:00)
Ludwing OrtizVEN
Match #7 Henrique GuimarãesBRA
Ippon/Uchi-mata (2:55)
Gabriel BengtssonSWE
Match #8 Girolamo GiovinazzoITA
Ippon/Ippon Seoi-nage (1:07)
Melvin MéndezPUR

Quarter-Finals (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Larbi BenboudaoudFRA
Yuko (4) (5:00)
David SomervilleGBR
Match #2 Kiyoshi UematsuESP
Yuko (2) (5:00)
Alex OttianoUSA
Match #3 Giorgi VazagashviliGEO
Ippon/Uki-otoshi (4:17)
Pedro CaravanaPOR
Match #4 Girolamo GiovinazzoITA
Ippon/Sode-tsuri-komi-goshi (4:16)
Henrique GuimarãesBRA

Semi-Finals (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Larbi BenboudaoudFRA
Ippon/Seukui-nage (2:45)
Kiyoshi UematsuESP
Match #2 Girolamo GiovinazzoITA
Ippon/Ippon Seoi-nage (2:36)
Giorgi VazagashviliGEO

Final Round (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Larbi BenboudaoudFRA
Ippon/Kibisu-gaeshi (1:08)
Girolamo GiovinazzoITA

Repêchage (17 September 2000)

Match #1 Han Ji-HwanKOR
Koka (2)/Kata-garami (5:00)
Jorge QuintanalGUA
Match #2 Han Ji-HwanKOR
Ippon/Seoi-nage (4:56)
David SomervilleGBR
Match #3 Henrique GuimarãesBRA
Yuko/O-soto-gaeshi (5:00)
Melvin MéndezPUR
Match #4 Giorgi VazagashviliGEO
Ippon/Tani-otoshi (1:36)
Henrique GuimarãesBRA
Match #5 Han Ji-HwanKOR
Yuko/Seoi-nage (5:00)
Kiyoshi UematsuESP
Match #6 Giorgi VazagashviliGEO
Ippon/Uki-waza (3:06)
Han Ji-HwanKOR
Match 3/4 Giorgi VazagashviliGEO
Waza-ari awasete Ippon/Sogo-gachi (4:10)
Patrick van KalkenNED

Final Round (17 September 2000)

Match 1/2 Hüseyin ÖzkanTUR
Ippon/Uchi-mata-makikomi (2:46)
Larbi BenboudaoudFRA